Airbus, the European aircraft maker that directly employs more than 10,000 people in Britain, claimed yesterday that it was on a flightpath to recovery.
After delivering 437 aircraft in the first nine months of the year, the company, which is based in Toulouse but has facilities at Broughton in north Wales and at Filton near Bristol, insisted that it was on track to finish more than 700 new jets for the year as whole.
Broughton is assembling wings at a rate of 50 a month for Airbus’s workhorse short-haul aircraft in its A320 family, of which the company has delivered 430 in the year to date.
Airbus confirmed that it would increase its monthly rate of producing the A320 to 65 by early 2024 and
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